IPS seventh-grader's attempted abduction under investigation

5:24 PM,
Apr. 18, 2013

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Police are asking families in the Indianapolis Public Schools district to be alert after a seventh grade student this morning reported an attempted abduction.

The girl was walking in the area of Addison and Ohio streets around 7 a.m., IPS spokesman John Althardt said, when a man believed to be in his 50s approached her in a small white sports-utility vehicle.

"In Spanish, he asked if she would get in his car," Althardt said. "She said, 'No, I don't know you.' Then he said, 'Hey, can I take you to school?' And she said no again and then ran off toward a friend's house." ...